{"id":2487,"date":"2018-09-23T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/poor-toad-how-stormy-daniels-ruined-mario-kart\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T21:06:57","slug":"poor-toad-how-stormy-daniels-ruined-mario-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/poor-toad-how-stormy-daniels-ruined-mario-kart\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Toad: How Stormy Daniels ruined Mario Kart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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He’s the lovable mushroom-headed character from the Super Mario games.<\/p>\n

But thanks to excerpts from porn star Stormy Daniels’ tell-all book, Toad has become associated with US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

In it, she compares Trump’s penis to the “mushroom character in Mario Kart”.<\/p>\n

It was a detail which sent people online reeling, with many suggesting Toad deserved much better, and it wasn’t long before the inevitable memes and jokes started.<\/p>\n

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Thinking about how Toad is just the purest, cutest videogame character and how nothing could sully his image. Now to take a big gulp of coffee and check twitter<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie) September 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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The Guardian has got a copy<\/a> of the yet-to-be-published memoir Full Disclosure.<\/p>\n

It apparently goes into salacious details about her alleged affair with President Trump.<\/p>\n

Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 (about \u00a390,000) through Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, shortly before the 2016 election.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reactions online ranged from amusement to horror, as both Toad and Mario Kart began trending.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Life, a website which covers all things Nintendo, got in on the joke.<\/p>\n

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Before bringing back one of the president’s most infamous tweets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Nintendo did not comment, though one of their tweets from 2015 became popular once more.<\/p>\n

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Writing for Slate<\/a>, self-described Toad fan Nitisha Pahwa said: “I am simply mourning that Toad, in my view the best Mario Kart character – both as a personified mushroom and as a racer – will now forever be associated with an ‘unusual’ penis.” <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NY Mag’s Brian Feldman argued this was the latest example of the “modern joys” of being a Mario fan.<\/a><\/p>\n

“A relatively bland franchise has been pushed to incredible new heights by an internet hive mind relentlessly devoted to corrupting every part of this franchise,” he wrote. <\/p>\n

“In fact, that’s really the main appeal of Mario at this point.”<\/p>\n

President Trump has not commented on the latest revelations from Stormy Daniel’s book.<\/p>\n

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